Bourbon brew at Blue Mountain

You lookin' for beer, Mister? The boys at Blue Mountain Brewery, from left to right, Chad Dean, Matt Nucci, and Taylor Smack got some.PHOTO BY MANDI SMACK

The bad boys at Blue Mountain Brewery are shown here racking a new batch of Dark Hollow, the imperial stout aged in charred oak bourbon barrels. They've got it on tap now, and the bottled version should be available in mid-January. And watch out, this whiskey-tinged brew packs a wallop in alcohol by volume, or ABV. One batch, aged in Jim Beam Double Black bourbon barrels, tips the ABV meter at 10 percent. Arrgg, matie!